But the chief wonder of the Thing lay in its eyes that were large and round, perhaps because the flesh had shrunk away from them, which gave them the appearance of being set in the hollow orbits of a skull.

These eyes literally shone like fire; indeed, at times they seemed positively to blaze, as I have seen a lion's eyes do in the dark.

I confess that the aspect of the creature terrified and for a while paralysed me; to think that it was human was awful.
I glanced at the others and saw that they, too, were frightened.

Stephen turned very white.

I thought that he was going to be sick again, as he was after he drank the coffee out of the wrong bowl on the day we entered Mazitu-land.